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the big problem I saw when I opened my browser this am was all that extra white padding, and far less actual information shown, for no conceivable reason besides "aesthetics" (eg, what looks 'cool' to the PTB @ what used to be a somewhat open company).
I'm completely ashamed to admit that what I started to use in 07 as a 'not serious' calendar (scheduling the kids' events) turned into a massive app for my business, my husband's business, personal tasks, school and activities (kids), political events, and just regular old event planning for meals, etc. I bought 2 androids this year *because* of that one stupid ~cloud~ app (Google Calendar). The phone apps are still great; but after today, the "new aesthetic" doesn't allow me to see a complicated group of calendars and tasks anymore. The useless empty white padding makes the outer columns so small that the SCROLL BARS are bigger than the shown information! (And I have a widescreen laptop!)
Yes, I can (and sure as hell did) revert back to the "classic style", and will be writing or lifting scripts (greasemonkey) to whack the page back into shape, but my trust in Google "apps" (not the search engine or email) took a giant nosedive today. It's clear that they'd prefer Calendar to look 'stylish' rather than to present information, or they would have made this "new aesthetic" a skin.
(I don't care what color the menu bar is; or if I can put a doodad icon in a field; I just want to SEE my INFORMATION.)
It's completely jarred my trust in any company's "cloud" apps (and that was my first and only, since I d/l my gmail to my harddrive). I'm tucking my tail in and going back to local storage and apps, and going to figure out my own syncing schemes with the android.
(Sorry; I'm extraordinarily pissed off. And I trust Google about as much as I trust 'user friendly' Microsoft:& )
No seriously, thank you. I love userscripts community for fixing google's 'improvements' so quickly. I'm 'bout THIS CLOSE to dumping google calendar after this bs today.
when really she was concerned for her kid. Maybe overly so;) but she obviously wasn't getting satisfaction. My mother used to HAVE to give me something if I had even a simple cold. It's a thing; she was overprotective or whatever. But when her doctor wouldn't give her something for me or my sister, she'd go to the pharmacist, who'd whip her up something that knocked us out good for days (LOL, like paregoric), and she'd feel like she'd been a responsible parent. Where's the harm in that?
That's part of a PCP/ER doctor's JOB, imo: calming patients down. The patients aren't there trying to waste your time or take up beds; they really don't feel well; and it's not a joy sitting in the waiting room when you're sick. The patients are concerned about something that only a medical doctor can help them with. If a doctor brushes them off, they'll def. continue to seek care.
And while it's not been brought up yet, the mass media news is at least SOMEWHAT responsible for the public freaking out about otherwise-benign symptoms like D&V. Bird flu, swine flu, &c "epidemics" were so overly published that people would get a SNIFFLE and run to the hospital (because they were TOLD to do so). Last year they closed schools here if a kid got a good case of diarrhea. So of COURSE parents are going to worry when their kid gets a really good stomach virus going on. They need to be calmed down; they're not 'bad patients'.
I've seen the phenomenon when a local specialist merely upgrades his office with new diagnostic testing equipment. Suddenly everyone needs a bone scan, or a 'routine' endoscopy, &c silly ass tests that have nothing to do with why the hell you went in to the specialist. (Of course the specialist says it's a "service" for his/her patients, so we don't have to drive 20 mts away to have a 'beneficial' test done. But I bet you the specialists recommend the testing a lot more after they install the new equipment in their offices.)
Actually, I've seen the same phenomenon in veterinarians offices as well. "We do routine BONE SCANS on our PATIENTS" [to catch and prevent the possible spread of cancer, arthritis, or I suppose make sure they're getting enough CALCIUM SUPPLEMENT].
(Yes, I got SUCKERED into getting my middle-aged chihuahua a freaking bone scan because he had a funny bump that I expressed concern about. I thought it was an x-ray until I saw the bill. They recommended I get pet health insurance. The funny bump turned out to be a benign growth; ie, a funny bump.)
I stay the hell away from doctors, vets, dentists, and car mechanics as much as possible. And I try to select the ones with the LEAST in-office equipment possible.
Hello! What is this?! I responded to "whistleblower defense isn't going to fly [in court]" with something OBAMA'S OWN ADMINISTRATION speaker had concerns with: Bradley Manning's treatment now would affect the court case later [if he's ever able to stand trial].
As for Manning's ability to stand trial, after being in solitary confinement for 8 mos+, and stripped naked at night most recently (ostensibly because he's a 'suicide threat' but doesn't qualify for a mental evaluation), Manning's reportedly catatonic — not fit for trial. That's FLAMEBAIT?! Hell no — at worst, it's "Off topic", but then again, so is this whole part of the thread.
Maybe not, but I sure hope the case is thrown out due to the abuse and torture he is suffering while being held at Quantico; conditions that by the Gevena Act (if he were a POW) would be considered torture. There's no way he could be fit to stand trial after being abused constantly for months. He can't get a fair trial.
ICAM, esp w/ the taxes paying for the operation of the govt and not for social change, etc. (Although I guess I'd include interstate roads and such as a function of a federal org).
ITA; very little added functionality, just everything's hidden in a new place and called something different.
I'd like to know a bit about the filesystem underneath these "bubbles".....or, omg, is it all CLOUD BASED (that sky drive nightmare—worst implementation ever of 'net storage'.).
I think the state couldn't prove its case, and judges tend to respect people who at least try to put up a decent defense (road was empty and relative in ER) — showing up with an app that showed your top speed and avg speed, that's more impressive than a sob story any day, imo.
(I always have to delete my in-car computer data when pulled over... my top speeds fall in category of wreckless driving, and I'm paranoid cops will check it out. But good for this guy staying @ or under speed limit... or 'adjusting' the data before the trial.)
It's a government: I can imagine them getting thousands of cheap knockoff printers/scanners, and Microsoft dangling a driver for Windows as a free d/l. (Though I can't imagine Germany not pressuring the knockoff company to write some linux drivers for a large purchase).
I think their problem is the statement that they used linux servers and dual-boot linux/win desktops. I've done that, too, but only until I could find a way to port everything over, which with some s/w can be a challenge (esp if said s/w is ancient and isn't supported anymore). After this many years, Germany should've cut the cord (no dual-boot) well before now; what they've probably got is everyone booting into whatever OS they like, using whatever s/w they prefer, so nothing's going to be consistent.
[cover my ass], often, esp. w/ committees when we're not supposed to discuss something, but someone inevitably tries to drag my ass into an email conversation. To be polite, I respond with a bland 'we should discuss this at the next meeting' and cut the original post except the header, and BCC to at least one other member to prove I didn't start any conversation, and don't intend to be part of one.
LOL! And for me these are people who didn't even have computers when AOL was out, but I guess the walmart specials come pre-loaded with crap start pages that are like AOL. And so you TEACH them what the effin addy bar is, even what URL stands for and how they can oooooh type in an IP number instead of domain name, and "they get it!"... but a week later they're STILL typing a URL into an "Ask toolbar" which came "for free".
I have really gotten used to the way the status bar appears/disappears ON the website page; I didn't think I'd ever trust a browser that didn't have a static status bar to let me know exactly what was going on all the time, but the Chrome status bar is a winner imo.
I'm thinking the auto-show URL bar could work, esp if they incorporate it as a ghost image on the webpage like they do the status bar. (And if they completely FUBAR the thing, I imagine it wouldn't take long to get an extension that brings back the URL bar).
I'm just wondering where they'll cram the tool menu and the extensions that fit on the URL bar. I really like the translate tool within easy reach, and mail, voice, etc. Wonder if they'd auto-show w/ the URL bar when you get a push notification?
srsly, I started using that 'friend' button w/ people I agree with a lot so their posts sorta stand out (I read at -1 so sometimes there's a lot of crap to slog through, although curiously those posts aren't the low numbers but the higher ones). Heh, your name is enough reason to get that big green emerald on your posts.
Not folders, "libraries", and sure as hell no tags (I tried that w/ Picasa for my pictures a few years ago; made a mess; deleted Picasa -- returned to sensible dir structure "pictures/TOPIC/year/month" and I'm fine). And I separate code by language ("code/4th/TOPIC" or "code/c++/TOPIC"..I even keep a/fortran dir though I haven't used it since 80s, and a/48sx— some of my favorite code even though it's essentially unusable). Homebrew backup across local network drives and [for pics/video and code] solid state.
evil: I keep an/mp3 dir that's root-accessible only, with no subdirs whatsoever. ONE time I had a problem with this, and for that system alone I made a few subdirs. Learned hard way w/ iTunes. I despise programs that rearrange your files for you, make ridiculous subdirs w/out permissions, etc. I have to use iTunes, but I look forward to the day when I can get rid of anything apple and/or adobe. Hell, not even MS forces directories on you (not incl. the OS itself, I guess).
I got the "$30 penalty" switching last month, but really, my old feature phone (LG Dare) did internet fine (no downloads, no pinch zoom, no flash), I had email, visual voice mail ($2/mo at the time), you tube, etc. The battery lasted longer, too (by about 8 effing hours), plus I had unlimited internet without an extra fee, and was grandfathered so I was sitting pretty. (And to go on, the camera took better pics, and the voice dialing works, unlike on my HTC Incredible.) But the Dare was 3 yrs old and not overly reliable anymore.
But I've found it's easier to take notes on smartphone, check my messages, and I love d/ling new apps for FREE! (instead of paying all the verizon wireless fees for games). I think what makes it worth the $30/mo extra, for me, is I'm not lugging around my laptop as much — syncing is easy, dropbox and the office suite has changed the way I work a lot.
(Another positive; I'm not butt-dialing as much, but that's not smartphone vs feature I guess, LOL!)
'rat face' — about a kid she's responsible for teaching and improving — is not the kind of judgment a professional should make. That's simply mean.
And even if she wasn't serious and was just 'venting', her fixation on students' physical attributes and personalities (esp the potential Columbine massacre kid) instead of the subject matter and the students' work, baffles me. I've BEEN to plenty of teacher conferences; SEEN notes they make... teachers are usually too busy keeping up with grading and actual teaching, and the 'notes' tend to be quickly-scribbled comments regarding the child's understanding of a particular topic.
And from what I understand, 'problem kids' (distracting in class, rude, bullying) get SENT TO THE OFFICE so the teacher can focus on the teaching, esp. since teachers are judged on SOL scores now. [I asked about this a few years ago because I didn't think sending kids to the office was good practice and set a bad example for other kids in classroom about how to handle distractions in real life; but to a one, the teachers said they had a tight schedule to teach a bunch of kids federally-mandated knowledge and didn't have time to mess with the problem kids, and treated those kids' issues as 'administrative' problems.]
Of course, I suppose she can't send a kid to the office because he's 'rat-faced'.
If she needs to 'vent' about her students' appearances and personalities, she needs a professional with whom she can vent privately. Scribbling down hurtful, potentially illegal (libelous) notes about kids you're responsible for teaching would seem to incite her anger MORE since she's not getting any feedback. And her position (teacher) is too important for her mental state to be a question.
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the big problem I saw when I opened my browser this am was all that extra white padding, and far less actual information shown, for no conceivable reason besides "aesthetics" (eg, what looks 'cool' to the PTB @ what used to be a somewhat open company).
I'm completely ashamed to admit that what I started to use in 07 as a 'not serious' calendar (scheduling the kids' events) turned into a massive app for my business, my husband's business, personal tasks, school and activities (kids), political events, and just regular old event planning for meals, etc. I bought 2 androids this year *because* of that one stupid ~cloud~ app (Google Calendar). The phone apps are still great; but after today, the "new aesthetic" doesn't allow me to see a complicated group of calendars and tasks anymore. The useless empty white padding makes the outer columns so small that the SCROLL BARS are bigger than the shown information! (And I have a widescreen laptop!)
Yes, I can (and sure as hell did) revert back to the "classic style", and will be writing or lifting scripts (greasemonkey) to whack the page back into shape, but my trust in Google "apps" (not the search engine or email) took a giant nosedive today. It's clear that they'd prefer Calendar to look 'stylish' rather than to present information, or they would have made this "new aesthetic" a skin.
(I don't care what color the menu bar is; or if I can put a doodad icon in a field; I just want to SEE my INFORMATION.)
It's completely jarred my trust in any company's "cloud" apps (and that was my first and only, since I d/l my gmail to my harddrive). I'm tucking my tail in and going back to local storage and apps, and going to figure out my own syncing schemes with the android.
(Sorry; I'm extraordinarily pissed off. And I trust Google about as much as I trust 'user friendly' Microsoft :& )
minus those ask yahoo answers. Google's useful if properly queried.
No seriously, thank you. I love userscripts community for fixing google's 'improvements' so quickly. I'm 'bout THIS CLOSE to dumping google calendar after this bs today.
when really she was concerned for her kid. Maybe overly so ;) but she obviously wasn't getting satisfaction. My mother used to HAVE to give me something if I had even a simple cold. It's a thing; she was overprotective or whatever. But when her doctor wouldn't give her something for me or my sister, she'd go to the pharmacist, who'd whip her up something that knocked us out good for days (LOL, like paregoric), and she'd feel like she'd been a responsible parent. Where's the harm in that?
That's part of a PCP/ER doctor's JOB, imo: calming patients down. The patients aren't there trying to waste your time or take up beds; they really don't feel well; and it's not a joy sitting in the waiting room when you're sick. The patients are concerned about something that only a medical doctor can help them with. If a doctor brushes them off, they'll def. continue to seek care.
And while it's not been brought up yet, the mass media news is at least SOMEWHAT responsible for the public freaking out about otherwise-benign symptoms like D&V. Bird flu, swine flu, &c "epidemics" were so overly published that people would get a SNIFFLE and run to the hospital (because they were TOLD to do so). Last year they closed schools here if a kid got a good case of diarrhea. So of COURSE parents are going to worry when their kid gets a really good stomach virus going on. They need to be calmed down; they're not 'bad patients'.
I've seen the phenomenon when a local specialist merely upgrades his office with new diagnostic testing equipment. Suddenly everyone needs a bone scan, or a 'routine' endoscopy, &c silly ass tests that have nothing to do with why the hell you went in to the specialist. (Of course the specialist says it's a "service" for his/her patients, so we don't have to drive 20 mts away to have a 'beneficial' test done. But I bet you the specialists recommend the testing a lot more after they install the new equipment in their offices.)
Actually, I've seen the same phenomenon in veterinarians offices as well. "We do routine BONE SCANS on our PATIENTS" [to catch and prevent the possible spread of cancer, arthritis, or I suppose make sure they're getting enough CALCIUM SUPPLEMENT].
(Yes, I got SUCKERED into getting my middle-aged chihuahua a freaking bone scan because he had a funny bump that I expressed concern about. I thought it was an x-ray until I saw the bill. They recommended I get pet health insurance. The funny bump turned out to be a benign growth; ie, a funny bump.)
I stay the hell away from doctors, vets, dentists, and car mechanics as much as possible. And I try to select the ones with the LEAST in-office equipment possible.
hatin on AF, pardon :)
Hello! What is this?! I responded to "whistleblower defense isn't going to fly [in court]" with something OBAMA'S OWN ADMINISTRATION speaker had concerns with: Bradley Manning's treatment now would affect the court case later [if he's ever able to stand trial].
I called it torture, and I'm not alone. Even the UN is investigating the government's treatment of Bradley Manning. Likewise, several journalists have taken Manning's treatment to task and called it 'torture' (Will Bunch, Daniel Ellsberg... the numbers are building). And [finally!] a congressman likened Manning's treatment to Abu Ghraib.
As for Manning's ability to stand trial, after being in solitary confinement for 8 mos+, and stripped naked at night most recently (ostensibly because he's a 'suicide threat' but doesn't qualify for a mental evaluation), Manning's reportedly catatonic — not fit for trial. That's FLAMEBAIT?! Hell no — at worst, it's "Off topic", but then again, so is this whole part of the thread.
Maybe not, but I sure hope the case is thrown out due to the abuse and torture he is suffering while being held at Quantico; conditions that by the Gevena Act (if he were a POW) would be considered torture. There's no way he could be fit to stand trial after being abused constantly for months. He can't get a fair trial.
Exactly; it's sci-fi. I get my fill from ST reruns, not /. Sux.
forcing headache-inducing, curly lightbulbs on the populace is a fine reason to revolt.
ICAM, esp w/ the taxes paying for the operation of the govt and not for social change, etc. (Although I guess I'd include interstate roads and such as a function of a federal org).
ITA; very little added functionality, just everything's hidden in a new place and called something different.
I'd like to know a bit about the filesystem underneath these "bubbles". ....or, omg, is it all CLOUD BASED (that sky drive nightmare—worst implementation ever of 'net storage'.).
I think the state couldn't prove its case, and judges tend to respect people who at least try to put up a decent defense (road was empty and relative in ER) — showing up with an app that showed your top speed and avg speed, that's more impressive than a sob story any day, imo.
(I always have to delete my in-car computer data when pulled over... my top speeds fall in category of wreckless driving, and I'm paranoid cops will check it out. But good for this guy staying @ or under speed limit... or 'adjusting' the data before the trial.)
It's a government: I can imagine them getting thousands of cheap knockoff printers/scanners, and Microsoft dangling a driver for Windows as a free d/l. (Though I can't imagine Germany not pressuring the knockoff company to write some linux drivers for a large purchase).
I think their problem is the statement that they used linux servers and dual-boot linux/win desktops. I've done that, too, but only until I could find a way to port everything over, which with some s/w can be a challenge (esp if said s/w is ancient and isn't supported anymore). After this many years, Germany should've cut the cord (no dual-boot) well before now; what they've probably got is everyone booting into whatever OS they like, using whatever s/w they prefer, so nothing's going to be consistent.
It's not an OS problem; it's poor IT.
[cover my ass], often, esp. w/ committees when we're not supposed to discuss something, but someone inevitably tries to drag my ass into an email conversation. To be polite, I respond with a bland 'we should discuss this at the next meeting' and cut the original post except the header, and BCC to at least one other member to prove I didn't start any conversation, and don't intend to be part of one.
LOL! And for me these are people who didn't even have computers when AOL was out, but I guess the walmart specials come pre-loaded with crap start pages that are like AOL. And so you TEACH them what the effin addy bar is, even what URL stands for and how they can oooooh type in an IP number instead of domain name, and "they get it!"... but a week later they're STILL typing a URL into an "Ask toolbar" which came "for free".
Start pages should be BANNED.
I have really gotten used to the way the status bar appears/disappears ON the website page; I didn't think I'd ever trust a browser that didn't have a static status bar to let me know exactly what was going on all the time, but the Chrome status bar is a winner imo.
I'm thinking the auto-show URL bar could work, esp if they incorporate it as a ghost image on the webpage like they do the status bar. (And if they completely FUBAR the thing, I imagine it wouldn't take long to get an extension that brings back the URL bar).
I'm just wondering where they'll cram the tool menu and the extensions that fit on the URL bar. I really like the translate tool within easy reach, and mail, voice, etc. Wonder if they'd auto-show w/ the URL bar when you get a push notification?
but number of fb profiles that cause stress. keeping all those profiles in order, remembering what nationality you are, etc can be a real pita.
srsly, I started using that 'friend' button w/ people I agree with a lot so their posts sorta stand out (I read at -1 so sometimes there's a lot of crap to slog through, although curiously those posts aren't the low numbers but the higher ones). Heh, your name is enough reason to get that big green emerald on your posts.
My thoughts, somewhat... maybe the esprit de la révolution has jumped the Mediterranean.
THIS. Thank you.
(waiting for someone to say 'CLOUD')
Not folders, "libraries", and sure as hell no tags (I tried that w/ Picasa for my pictures a few years ago; made a mess; deleted Picasa -- returned to sensible dir structure "pictures/TOPIC/year/month" and I'm fine). And I separate code by language ("code/4th/TOPIC" or "code/c++/TOPIC" ..I even keep a /fortran dir though I haven't used it since 80s, and a /48sx— some of my favorite code even though it's essentially unusable). Homebrew backup across local network drives and [for pics/video and code] solid state.
evil: I keep an /mp3 dir that's root-accessible only, with no subdirs whatsoever. ONE time I had a problem with this, and for that system alone I made a few subdirs. Learned hard way w/ iTunes. I despise programs that rearrange your files for you, make ridiculous subdirs w/out permissions, etc. I have to use iTunes, but I look forward to the day when I can get rid of anything apple and/or adobe. Hell, not even MS forces directories on you (not incl. the OS itself, I guess).
LOL, please!
I got the "$30 penalty" switching last month, but really, my old feature phone (LG Dare) did internet fine (no downloads, no pinch zoom, no flash), I had email, visual voice mail ($2/mo at the time), you tube, etc. The battery lasted longer, too (by about 8 effing hours), plus I had unlimited internet without an extra fee, and was grandfathered so I was sitting pretty. (And to go on, the camera took better pics, and the voice dialing works, unlike on my HTC Incredible.) But the Dare was 3 yrs old and not overly reliable anymore.
But I've found it's easier to take notes on smartphone, check my messages, and I love d/ling new apps for FREE! (instead of paying all the verizon wireless fees for games). I think what makes it worth the $30/mo extra, for me, is I'm not lugging around my laptop as much — syncing is easy, dropbox and the office suite has changed the way I work a lot.
(Another positive; I'm not butt-dialing as much, but that's not smartphone vs feature I guess, LOL!)
'rat face' — about a kid she's responsible for teaching and improving — is not the kind of judgment a professional should make. That's simply mean.
And even if she wasn't serious and was just 'venting', her fixation on students' physical attributes and personalities (esp the potential Columbine massacre kid) instead of the subject matter and the students' work, baffles me. I've BEEN to plenty of teacher conferences; SEEN notes they make... teachers are usually too busy keeping up with grading and actual teaching, and the 'notes' tend to be quickly-scribbled comments regarding the child's understanding of a particular topic.
And from what I understand, 'problem kids' (distracting in class, rude, bullying) get SENT TO THE OFFICE so the teacher can focus on the teaching, esp. since teachers are judged on SOL scores now. [I asked about this a few years ago because I didn't think sending kids to the office was good practice and set a bad example for other kids in classroom about how to handle distractions in real life; but to a one, the teachers said they had a tight schedule to teach a bunch of kids federally-mandated knowledge and didn't have time to mess with the problem kids, and treated those kids' issues as 'administrative' problems.]
Of course, I suppose she can't send a kid to the office because he's 'rat-faced'.
If she needs to 'vent' about her students' appearances and personalities, she needs a professional with whom she can vent privately. Scribbling down hurtful, potentially illegal (libelous) notes about kids you're responsible for teaching would seem to incite her anger MORE since she's not getting any feedback. And her position (teacher) is too important for her mental state to be a question.